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Tamil Nadu, already earning a notorious tag for its efforts to put down dissent especially against the BJP, blotted its copybook further with the arrest of a 28-year-old research scholar from Canada, Lois Sofia, for shouting, “down with Modi, BJP-RSS fascist government,” towards the end of a Chennai-Thoothukudi flight when TN BJP president Tamilisai Soundarajan crossed her.

The BJP heaved a sigh of relief as it could finally reach a deal with actor-politician Vijayakanth's DMDK for the Lok Sabha elections in Tamil Nadu. After more than three weeks of acrimony, the two sides agreed on March 15 on the number of seats -- 14 for the DMDK.